Experience

Velo3D

• United States
• Machinery Manufacturing
• 100 - 200 Employee

• Senior Electrical Engineer

  • Dec 2022 - Present

  Metal 3D Printing Metal 3D Printing



BriteLab

• United States
• Appliances, Electrical, and Electronics Manufacturing
• 1 - 100 Employee

• Engineering Integration Manager and Senior EE

  • Nov 2020 - Nov 2022

  • Updated wafer delivery system by redesigning existing hardware for the Aero Track II. Updated the following PCBAs to newer electronic parts with a 10-year availability and support: o Turn table: This subsystem contained 5 PCBAs. Controller and controller daughter board, DC to DC board, STAR and Ring boards o Redesigned Power Distribution Unit (PDU) for the stocker which delivers wafer caddies between the production process tools and a stocker storage room. Redesigned both the AC and DC PDUs. o Aero Loader IV redesign of the PDUs. The Aero Loader is a sub system that delivers wafers from the stocker (storage room) to the various process tools in a chip fab o Redesign of the Horizontal Transfer Station. This is an electromechanical interface between the production line delivery system and the wafer storage rooms. o Senior EE. Mentor to next generation of engineers. o One of the lead failure analyses (FA) engineer for this start up. Show less



Western Digital

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Senior Engineering Program Manager, SSD Enterprise and Commercial Products.

  • Sep 2015 - Oct 2020

  • PLCT-Core team member for commercial and industrial grade SATA SSD products. • Primary responsibility to Develop Master Test Plan (MTP) for SSD products and insure product quality and reliability are met from inception to end of life. • Report weekly status to PLCT executive team and Quality management.• Insure all product requirements are met through various testing such:o Development Test (DT), White Box (WB), Platform Validation Test (PVT), o Engineering Validation Test (EVT), o Drive Validation Test (DVT), o Reliability Demonstration Test (RDT)s and Reliability Growth Test (RGT)o System Integration Test (SIT). o Gather all test data and insure adherence to the Product Requirements Document, PRD.• Work with all functional teams such as hardware, FW, NAND, system integration, manufacturing, quality, reliability and customer support to insure timely product delivery meeting all metrics to include performance, power and reliability.• Document lessons learned for future programs to improve design efficiency. Show less

• QA Engineering Program Manager, SSD Enterprise and Commercial Products.

  • Jul 2013 - Sep 2015

  • PLCT-Core team member for commercial and industrial grade SATA SSD products. • Primary responsibility to Develop Master Test Plan (MTP) for SSD products and insure product quality and reliability are met from inception to end of life. • Report weekly status to PLCT executive team and Quality management.• Insure all product requirements are met through various testing such:o Development Test (DT), White Box (WB), Platform Validation Test (PVT), o Engineering Validation Test (EVT), o Drive Validation Test (DVT), o Reliability Demonstration Test (RDT)s and Reliability Growth Test (RGT)o System Integration Test (SIT). o Gather all test data and insure adherence to the Product Requirements Document, PRD.• Work with all functional teams such as hardware, FW, NAND, system integration, manufacturing, quality, reliability and customer support to insure timely product delivery meeting all metrics to include performance, power and reliability.• Document lessons learned for future programs to improve design efficiency. Show less

• Senior Engineering Program Manager, HDD Enterprise and Commercial Products.

  • Oct 2009 - Jul 2013

  • Senior EPM on the following Enterprise Drive Programs: Complete product support from design to EOLo 3.5 inch, 7200 RPM, 1and 2 TB HDD drive. Was acting PM in addition to EPM responsibilitieso 2.5 inch, 10,000 RPM, 300/600/900 GB Tier 1 HDD drive• Senior EPM on the following Mobile and/or Branded Programs: Complete product support from design to EOLo 2.5 inch, 7200 RPM, 250/320 GB mobile disc drive. Note was acting PM in addition to EPM.o 2.5 inch, 5400 RPM, 160/250/320 GB mobile and branded disc drive.o 2.5 inch, 5400 RPM, 250/320/500/640 GB mobile disc drive.• Transferred above products to Asia for High Volume Manufacturing (HVM). Malaysia and Thailand.• Insured all design, performance, quality, reliability and manufacturing metrics were met.• Support from cradle to grave while implementing test time reduction, increase factory utilization and product improvement.• Lead FA tiger teams to resolve customer failures. Meet with customers weekly to go over critical issues. • Key member of customer PLCT qualification team focused on FA analysis and reporting via 8D methods. • Qualified drives with Tier 1 and 2 customers.• Resolved technical issues in a timely manner to insure successful qualification of products. Show less

• Senior Principal Engineer, Advanced Development, HDD Products

  • Dec 2008 - Oct 2009

  o Member of advanced suspension design team. Worked with electro-mechanical team to design, characterize and verify the electrical performance of front end recording subsystem in the 1 to 40 GHz range utilizing S-parameter techniques and Agilent’s ADS simulation software. o Disk drive front end includes preamp, heads and interconnect to PCBA on an electro-mechanical head stack suspension. Typically head fly less than an atoms width above media.o Transferred new front-end technologies to various design teams for product development and new tests to factories Show less



Seagate Technology

• United States
• Computer Hardware Manufacturing
• 700 & Above Employee

• Staff Research Development Engineer

  • Jan 2006 - Dec 2008

  • Built, tested and debugged new electro-mechanical testers for advanced media research in conjunction with Minnesota development teams. Advanced testers were utilized for areal density push for the recording subsystem. • Advanced spin stand results were utilized for new product development and advance science announcements. • Completed two six-sigma projects and one gauge study during Six-Sigma training. Achieved Brown Belt status. • Member of the Bit Pattern Media development team responsible for the front end electronic architecting and design. • Worked on various vendor preamps and channels and integrated into advanced electro-mechanical spin stands for advanced recording subsystem research. • Performed media experiments to help implement latest media designs to be incorporated into product design. Worked with media physicist and chemical engineers on spin stand results to improve media recipe. Show less



DeVry University

• United States
• Higher Education
• 700 & Above Employee

• Assistant Professor, DeVry University, Federal Way, WA

  • Aug 2003 - Jan 2005

  • Taught various electrical and computer-engineering classes for the undergraduate program. o AC/DC analysis, o Digital circuit design o Transistor amplifier design. o Project management courses. • Assisted the University achieve State and Federal accreditation for the new campus. • Assembled a team of students and made an official Request for Proposal (RFP) with the US government. Lost bid to a foreign agency that donated the system. • Taught various electrical and computer-engineering classes for the undergraduate program. o AC/DC analysis, o Digital circuit design o Transistor amplifier design. o Project management courses. • Assisted the University achieve State and Federal accreditation for the new campus. • Assembled a team of students and made an official Request for Proposal (RFP) with the US government. Lost bid to a foreign agency that donated the system.